Tag: Health_Innovation

• The American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011– Driving Jobs and Innovation This month we welcomed Noushin Jahanian as Intel's director of Tax Policy and Government Relations and newest member of our Washington, DC office. Noushin joins us from the Washington Tax Group and before that she was the Chief Counsel and Policy Director for Senator Stabenow of Michigan.Below is Noushin's first post on Policy@Intel. We are very excited she has joined...
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• Attention DC: Watch the PDT (Public Displays of Technology) I'm sure that no one in DC's policy world has an obsession with checking their mobile devices. Right? A recent survey commissioned by Intel found that nine out of ten American adults claim they have seen people misuse mobile technology, and 75 percent say mobile manners are becoming worse compared to just 1 year ago. With so many small and...
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• Today’s West Wing Week or Don’t Bump My Atoms Many in Washington and throughout the county look forward to the White House's regular “West Wing Week” video. These are typically posted on Fridays and include footage from the President’s travels and events from the preceding week.Today, the West Wing Week humorously subtitled “Don’t Bump My Atoms” (a quip from President Obama while Intel's Barbara Miner explained the workings of...
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• Inspiring the U.S. Innovation Engine for Healthcare I am on a plane returning from the annual HIMSS conference on health information technologies. As I watch the borderless states go by far below, I can see the lines and circles of our interstates and highways, which previous generations had the vision and audacity to create for us. Even with the depressing news headlines in the seat pocket in...
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• President Obama Visits Intel Oregon and Expresses His Hope for America’s Technological Future By Peter Cleveland, vice president of Global Public Policy at Intel This morning, Intel had the honor of hosting President Obama at our Ronler Acres site in Hillsboro, Oregon. It was a memorable and historic day for our company and a proud moment for more than 45,000 U.S. Intel employees. During the visit, we showed the President the world’s newest,...
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• A Busy Time For Privacy and Security By David Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer The past two weeks have included a number of important events for privacy and security. At the top of my mind have been the protests in Egypt, as I worry about the welfare of the Egyptian people and the many non-Egyptians in the country. One of the more disturbing...
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• Working Together to Create New U.S. Jobs by Accessing the Global Marketplace By Greg Slater, director of Trade and Competition Policy at Intel Corporation President Obama spoke to the U.S. Chamber yesterday, and despite serious disagreements in the past, both the President and the Chamber are now seeking common ground. In this economy, that’s not a hard task. We all agree with the President that “We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build...
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• Waiting and Innovating for 21st Century Healthcare I rushed home in crazy, foggy traffic Tuesday evening to see the President’s State of the Union address. I had left work hours earlier to head to a doctor’s appointment that had taken me four months of delay to get. I showed up fifteen minutes early, knowing that I would have to do the “New Year” fill-out-the-paperwork-all-over-again-routine upon arrival. Sure...
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